The project team has won a Digital Collections Fellowship from the Omohundro Institute to digitize American- and Atlantic-centered cases held at the University of Edinburgh.

Historian Alexandra MacDonald of the College of William & Mary reviews SCOS in the journal History.

On May 17, 2021, SCOS Co-Director Jim Ambuske will discuss the experiences of a formerly enslaved person named James Graham in a talk sponsored by the Benjamin Franklin House of London.

The addition of new case themes highlight the West Indies, India, and The York Buildings Company.

The SCOS and CRC teams will demonstrate the project's new EDITOR tool at a grant-funded workshop dedicated to how libraries can use digital tools for cataloging large print collections.

Randi Flaherty presented the SCOS digital archive at the 2021 annual meeting of the Virginia Consortium of Early Americanists, a group sponsored by the Omohundro Institute.

SCOS Co-Director Jim Ambuske recently appeared on the podcast Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant to discuss the SCOS archive and his current book project.

Jim Ambuske delivered a talk on American Loyalist cases in the Court of Session at the annual conference of the Institute for Thomas Paine Studies.

Jim Ambuske delivered a lunchtime presentation on SCOS to colleagues at the American Philosophical Society

Jim Ambuske's essay on exploring the British Atlantic through the papers of the Scottish Court of Session has been published in the International Review of Scottish Studies.

SCOS and CRC team members presented on their collaborative Session Papers project at the biannual meeting of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

The SCOS team has released an updated and redesigned website for its Court of Session digital archive.

SCOS co-director Jim Ambuske gave a talk on transnational legal history in the era of the American Revolution at the Family and Justice in the Archives Conference held at Concordia University in Montréal, Quebec.

SCOS co-directors Jim Ambuske, Randi Flaherty, and Loren S. Moulds have published a new article on the project in Scottish Archives, the journal of the Scottish Records Association.

The Law Library team recently returned from Scotland, where they identified nearly 500 Session Cases related to Atlantic and American history in Edinburgh libraries.

Through a grant from the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation, the SCOS team will soon visit Edinburgh to begin identifying Session cases involving early American litigants.

PSA for students: If extralegal systems such as cattle-trespass norms, industry-based arbitration services, and organized crime are up your alley, then the case of Aitken v. Wilson and Bannatyne in the SCOS archive might provide some grist for your next paper.

The SCOS team traveled to Edinburgh, Scotland, to present the digital project at the annual meeting of the Scottish Records Association and to meet with colleagues at the University of Edinburgh Library, who are pursuing a similar initiative.

Litigation documents are the “meat and potatoes” of our Scottish Court of Session Records, but the collection is also peppered with testimony, letters, wills, contracts, and other evidence offered by lawyers to help prove their cases.